The Restaurant Crawl: A (somewhat) regular roundup of (mostly) national restaurant news, links and more.

RIP Gabriel Axel: The Danish film director behind the Academy Award-winning "Babette's Feast" (1987), which is often cited among the best food-focused movies of all time, has died. He was 95. (AV Club)

Big Mac: McDonald's just opened its first location in Vietnam,
the chain's 10,000th restaurant overall in the
Asia-Pacific/Mid-East/Africa region. (WSJ)